How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When
they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically …

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about
intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal …

Populism is usually treated as an exclusively top-down affair where political party leaders
mobilize diverse constituencies to reap electoral benefits. This perspective discounts a rich …

The white nationalist movement in the United States is nothing new. Yet, prior to the 2017"
Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, many Americans assumed that it existed …

The shocking election of President Trump spawned myriad analyses and post-mortems, but
they consistently underestimate the crucial role of the Tea Party on the GOP and Republican …

Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in
the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the …

Scholars and pundits have long noted the dominance of the American two‐party system, but
we know relatively little about new, endogenous institutions that have emerged within the …

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members
of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along …

Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and
poverty usually require compromise. Yet national, state, and local legislators often reject …

The contemporary Republican Party has been the site of asymmetric partisan entrenchment
and factional infighting. We test whether factional pressure from a far-right faction (the Tea …